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April 4, 2013, Thursday

WHEN her husband, J. Seward Johnson, died in 1983, Barbara Piasecka Johnson was left with a 46,000-square-foot neo-Classical villa and only a few dogs to keep her company. Her 140-acre estate, made up of woodlands and gently rolling fields in far...

June 21, 2001, Thursday

Barbara Piasecka Johnson, the heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and the golf star Gary Player will break ground today on construction of a $15 million championship golf course on Mrs. Johnson's estate. In February, Mrs. Johnson received...

LEAD: The flush of excitement with which most of the world has greeted political change in Eastern Europe obscures the reality about artistic life in cities like this: If improvements are to come here, they are far off and will be hard earned.

LEAD: In Poland, where economic strains have forced cultural organizations like the National Museum in Warsaw to reduce telephone service for staff members, the exhibition entitled ''Opus Sacrum'' is singularly opulent. It is also an inspired event.

April 24, 1990, Tuesday

LEAD: Ten months ago, it seemed that a capitalist fairy tale was unfolding at this city's famed shipyard, the birthplace of Poland's Solidarity trade union movement. But today, the hoped-for revival has become a case study of the difficulties of...

April 9, 1990, Monday

LEAD: Barbara Piasecka Johnson (right, with Lech Walesa), who went to work as a chambermaid after immigrating from Poland in 1968, has doubtless learned a little something about capitalism since she inherited $570 million or so a few years ago. Mrs....